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ON SCIENTIFIC VIEWS ON THE SYSTEM OF MODERN CIVIL PROCEDURAL LAW IN RUSSIA

D.A. PLOTNIKOV,
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Legal Disciplines,
Vyatka State University

https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2021-11-6-112-139

In the article, the author addresses the problems of modern science of civil procedure law on
the issue of the optimal option for structuring the branch of law. During the study, several
areas of understanding of the structure of civil procedural law were discovered. The first
direction is based on the need to use the traditional elements of the structure of the branch of
law (sub-branch, institute, norm). The second direction is related to the influence of reforming
the norms of material law under the influence of the development of virtual (digital) legal
relations, the active introduction of robotization in legal relations, etc. As a result, the
literature actively discusses the emergence of new entities in the law industry system, which
some have studied and called “summative (non-systemic) legal entities” (V.M. Sherstiuk),
“cyclical normative arrays in law” (T.Ia. Khabrieva). However, the author stands out another
direction, within the framework of which an attempt is made to understand the rationale
for dividing the industry into parts, both taking into account the theory of law and the
accumulated experience in the development of civil procedural law. On the one hand, the
division of the industry into parts is an example of the established tradition since the Soviet
period. At the same time, the author draws attention to the fact that the legal literature
has not yet answered the question about the methodological justification of the presence
in the structure of the branch of law of such an element as part, its relationship with the
sub-branch, institution, and other entities in the system of the branch of law. Based on the
analysis of the structure of other branches of Russian law, the author concludes that the tools
used to structure the branches of Russian law are used. As a result, there is inconsistency in
the definition of parts of the branch of civil procedure law and the branch of civil procedure
law, in the question of the ratio of sub-branches and parts of civil procedure law, and also
the problem of the correlation of parts of the branch with related.

Keywords: civil procedural law; branch of law; sub-branch; institution; parts of the branch;
general part; special part; special part.

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Information about the author

D.A. Plotnikov (Kirov, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Legal Disciplines, Vyatka State University (26 Krasnoarmeiskaia
St., Kirov, 610002, Russia; e-mail: [email protected]).

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